A CLEVER SHEEP DOG.

Bush Advocate, Volume XX, Issue 1028, 16 May 1908, Page 6

A CLEVER SHEEP DOG.

A shepherd once, to prove the quickness of his dog, which was lying before the fire in thehouse where we were talking, said to me hi the middle of a sentence concerning something else, "I'm thinking, sir, the cow is in the potatoes." Though he purposely laid" no stress on these words and said them in a quiet, unconcerned tone of voice, the dog, Avho appeared to be asleep, immediately jumped up, and, leaping through the open window, scrambled up to the turf roof of the house, froni which he coiild see "the potato field. He then, np-t seeing the cow there, ran and looked into the barn where she was, and finding that all was right, came back to the house. After a short time the shepherd said the same words again, and the dog repeated his' look-out ; but on the false alarm being given a third time tho dog got up, and, wagging his tail, looked at his master in the face with so comical an expression of interrogation that be co aid not hell) laughing aloiid at ■him, on which, with a slight growl, ho iaid himself down in his warm corner with an offended air, as if determined not to be made a fool of again.